Tagged: fintech trends

August 7, 2022 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SC Ventures recently revealed that it has introduced Appro, which is a Fintech that digitizes and enhances the retail banking customer experience. Supported by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s Fintech investment and ventures unit, the “bank-agnostic” platform intends to signifiantly reduce the time taken to finalize… Read More

August 6, 2022 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ranqx, the digital lending platform built for lenders to small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs), has expanded its working relationship with Visa (NYSE: V) into North America. Before collaborating with Visa in North America, Ranqx worked cooperatively with Visa in its Asia Pacific region. Under the latest… Read More

August 6, 2022 @ 3:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sonovate, the provider of embedded finance and payment solutions for the contingent workforce, announced a partnership with Demica, the trade finance Fintech firm, in order to streamline its reporting processes so it may support business customers across the globe. Under the terms of the partnership,… Read More

August 6, 2022 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ING will be trialing a carbon footprint tracking app offered by Fintech firm Cogo with 350,000 mobile clients. The Footprint Insight feature is being made available to clients who currently use the bank’s Insight function, which groups their income and expenditure by spending category. Footprint… Read More

August 5, 2022 @ 5:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ZEBEDEE, which claims to be the leading Fintech and next-gen payment processor for the gaming industry, announced the launch of an integration allowing any business “to implement ‘Log in with ZBD’ and instantly grant users the ability to move money to and from different online… Read More

August 5, 2022 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, recently announced its ability “to increase its app releases by 300%, thanks to its ongoing work with mobile devops company Bitrise.” Since 2019, Affirm has been “working with Bitrise to automate… Read More

August 4, 2022 @ 11:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alloy, which claims to be the leading Identity Decisioning Platform for banks and fintech companies, announced its global expansion. Alloy’s platform for fraud and risk decisions is “available in 40 countries across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.” Alloy claims it already “has an established… Read More

August 4, 2022 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stackwell, the digital investment platform created to address the racial wealth gap, recently announced the closing of a $3.5 million seed funding round that will “accelerate the company’s launch plan, allowing it to rapidly reach key product development and go-to-market milestones, as well as support… Read More

August 4, 2022 @ 9:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex, the company “reimagining finance” for growing businesses, recently announced the appointment of Doug Adamic as its Chief Revenue Officer. Doug will “lead revenue and growth strategy for Brex as the company expands into financial software with Brex Empower and grows its global offerings for… Read More

August 4, 2022 @ 10:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Automation (FTA) announces it has been “selected as one of the technology partners for open banking within Mastercard’s Engage partner network.” The Engage program has “developed a network to provide businesses easy access to technology partners that can quickly build and deploy open banking… Read More

August 3, 2022 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum Bank announces that it has expanded its bank-grade staking offering with Cardano (ADA), the eighth-largest protocol by market cap (at the time of writing). Clients can “conveniently and securely stake Cardano through Sygnum’s institutional-grade banking platform to generate staking rewards.” Cardano (ADA) joins Sygnum’s… Read More

August 3, 2022 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Synctera, a Fintech platform helping innovators bring financial products to market more efficiently, has launched Ground Control, which is described as an “an end-to-end banking and compliance operational support program for developers and builders of financial products.” Ground Control is “a complimentary service that helps… Read More

August 3, 2022 @ 8:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Savana, a financial software for banks and fintechs, announced the closing of a $45 million Series A round led by Georgian, a growth-stage investor based in Toronto, Canada. The funds will be “used to drive continued growth of Savana’s core-agnostic Digital Delivery Platform, ramp up… Read More

August 3, 2022 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Parafin, a Fintech firm that’s being led by ex- Robinhood Markets Inc. professionals, has acquired $60 million in funding as part of its second investment round. Established in 2020 by Ralph Furman, Sahill Poddar, and Vineet Goel, Parafin works cooperatively with firms like DoorDash Inc…. Read More

August 3, 2022 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Agile Financial Systems (AFS), a financial technology company specializing in payment processing, announced that it has teamed up with LendingPoint, an AI-driven CreditTech financial platform, “to offer merchants consumer lending and unsecured personal loans online and at the point of sale.” By enabling merchants to… Read More

August 3, 2022 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

To better serve banks and broker-dealers in North America and APAC regions on the NYFIX network around the clock, Fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), announced a partnership with Blue Ocean Technologies (BOT), which claims to be unique capital markets Fintech “focused on global afterhours… Read More

August 2, 2022 @ 11:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Penfold, the digital pension “disrupting” the broken £8 trillion UK pension industry, has raised 194% (£1,945,413) of its £1,000,000 target (at the time of writing) from 942 investors through its crowdfunding campaign carried out via Crowdcube (with just 1 day left in the sale). Backed… Read More

August 2, 2022 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alif, a Central Asian Fintech operating as a “full-fledged” Bank in Tajikistan and as e-commerce and Fintech company in Uzbekistan, has announced “a record 150%+ year-on-year revenue growth in the 12 months leading to June 2022.” During the same period, the total number of Alif… Read More

August 1, 2022 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TNG Digital, the owner and operator of the Touch ‘n Go eWallet, has secured RM 750 million (appr. $168.5 million) as part of its latest round of equity funding. This investment round has been led by a fresh investment from the Lazada Group and a… Read More

August 1, 2022 @ 7:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fortis, a payment and commerce technology provider for software providers, marketplaces and scaling businesses, recently announced its partnership with Everyware “opening integrated payment acceptance across platforms.” The partnership will “automate enrollment, provide faster cash collection and seamless commerce through various channels.” Fortis’ clients will benefit from… Read More